Estimate, Guess, or Promise?

My Father-in-law, a retired general contractor, always tells people, when asked about his career that he was a fighter. They look at him for a second imagining UFC or professional boxing, and then he says, "e;I was a general contractor. I had to fight to get work, fight to do the work, and then fight to get paid; I was a fighter."e; How true, contracting is not for the lighthearted! There are thre...